Darrington News

Published on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 by John Flood, Lieutenant [On Duty PIO] 339-5700 Pager Read More County & State The Snohomish County Sheriffa s Office received a report of an overdue hiker on November 03, 2009 at 12:29 AM.

Arlington: Planning official reappointed Longtime Arlington Planning Commissioner Mike Thomas was reappointed for another six-year term to the planning board.

Business news The state Department of Licensing has increased its offering of online business licenses from five to more than 90, making it easier for business owners to register for licenses needed to sell products such as tobacco, wine and beer, and lottery tickets.

Incumbent Sandi McCaulley is being challenged for her town council seat by John Rosselli.

Winter hiking trails in Washington State are easy to find at the Washington Trails Association.

Three veteran members of the Snohomish County Council have earned another four-year term: Republican John Koster, and Democrats Dave Gossett and Dave Somers.

An editor pointed out that my last two animal stories were about dead dogs. Let's rectify that dreary situation.

Arlington: Teens advisers needed Arlington area teenagers are invited to share their ideas for library programs, purchases and improvements.

Search crews today plan to continue their search for a pilot who has been missing from Snohomish County since Saturday afternoon.

Spring Mountain. Never heard of it, right? For a Cascade mountain, it's not exactly famous.

A convicted vandal who escaped from a Larch Corrections Center work crew on Sept.

An inmate that escaped from a minimum security prison in southwest Washington state nearly three weeks ago has been caught.

Arlington: Kids can paint for project Arlington Library invites kids to help paint a fish as part of a community art project.

Toxic metals including arsenic, lead and mercury at the old Monte Cristo mining area east of Granite Falls need to be cleaned up, state and federal officials say.

Here are the head counts for school districts in the county: District, 2008 and 2009 Arlington: 5,197 / 5,103 Darrington: 468 / 470 Edmonds: 20,009 / 19,874 Everett: 18,645 / 18,755 Granite Falls: 2,245 / 2,271 Index: 27 / 33 Lake Stevens: 7,608 / 7,776 Lakewood: 2,492 / 2,520 Marysville: 11,448 / 11,359 Monroe: 6,582 / 6,327 Mukilteo: 14,109 / ...

The U.S. Forest Service recently sent notice to Lake Wenatchee cabin owners that lease fees for the public land will spike more than 1,000 percent, from $1,400 to more than $17,000, by 2011.

It may only seem to them like they've been waiting 100 years for the Centennial Trail to be completed.

Kraig Hansen says it unequivocally: He has the best job in Everett. He gets no argument from me.

Dan Bates / The Herald The faces of kids reveal a variety emotions, including some first-day jitters, as their bus pulls up in front of Mountain Way Elementary School in Granite Falls for the first day of school on Tuesday.

An Arlington-area man was killed and his adult son was critically injured in a head-on collision with a dump truck early this morning outside of Oso as they were returning home from a trip to Idaho, according to the State Patrol.